Design of heat sinks for wearable thermoelectric generators to power personal heating garments: A numerical study
Journal article
Authors | Soleimani, Zohreh, Zoras, Stamatis, Cui, Yuanlong, Ceranic, Boris and Shahzad, Sally |
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Abstract | To mitigate climate change attributed to the built environments, there have been tremendous efforts to improve air conditioning systems in the buildings. The possibility of harvesting body heat as a renewable energy source to power a wearable personal heating system is investigated. The aim of this study is to integrate a wearable personal heating system with a thermoelectric generator (TEG) that harvests the body heat which is used to convert it into electricity. Moreover, the interaction between the TEG configuration and power output is studied. The power generation of TEG system is obtained by COMSOL Multiphysics software. The simulation results concluded that all the four proposed heat sink configurations can improve the power output of the wearable TEG at 1.4 m/s and 3m/s compared to that of the reference model. Furthermore, the perforated and trapezium shapes of heat sinks have a significantly better performance in comparison to conventional heat sinks. |
Keywords | Thermoelectric generator; polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS); air bubble; silver nanowire; galinstan |
Year | 2019 |
Journal | IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science |
Publisher | Institute of Physics |
ISSN | 17551307 |
17551315 | |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/624082 |
hdl:10545/624082 | |
Publication dates | 01 Jun 2019 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 08 Aug 2019, 08:18 |
Accepted | 01 Mar 2019 |
Contributors | University of Derby and University of Sheffield |
File | File Access Level Open |
File | File Access Level Open |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/951v4/design-of-heat-sinks-for-wearable-thermoelectric-generators-to-power-personal-heating-garments-a-numerical-study
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